Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable Infra & Data Systems

Webhosting; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Pension plan

Flexible PTO

Free lunch

Employee assistance

Job summary

Squarespace is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Databases team within Infrastructure Foundations in Dublin. You will own backend infrastructure powering the platform and build automation to scale it, working with MongoDB, CockroachDB and Kafka.

This hybrid Dublin role requires 3 days in the office and 2 days remote. You will mentor junior engineers, participate in technical design reviews, and collaborate across product engineering to deliver reliable services for millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience with scalable systems.
• Experience mentoring teammates and driving code quality.
• Ability to participate in technical design reviews and architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop automation interfacing with infrastructure in GCP.
• Improve performance and scalability of backend infra components.
• Collaborate with teams across Squarespace to build scalable services.
• Contribute to engineering excellence and mentor juniors.

Skills

Mentoring junior engineers

Cross-functional collaboration

Technical design reviews

Tools

MongoDB

CockroachDB

Kafka

Job description

Squarespace is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer for the Databases team within Infrastructure Foundations in Dublin. You will own backend infrastructure powering the platform and build automation to scale it, working with MongoDB, CockroachDB and Kafka.

This hybrid Dublin role requires 3 days in the office and 2 days remote. You will mentor junior engineers, participate in technical design reviews, and collaborate across product engineering to deliver reliable services for millions of customers.